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CERN sites

CERN's main site

The smaller accelerators are located on the main Meyrin site (also known as the West Area), which was originally built in Switzerland alongside the French border, but has been extended to span the border since 1965. The French side is under Swiss jurisdiction and so there is no obvious border within the site, apart from a line of marker stones. There are six entrances to the Meyrin site:

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

The accelerator chain of the Large Hadron Collider

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Particle accelerators and the Large Hadron Collider

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Construction of LHC at CERN

Current complex

CERN operates a network of six accelerators and a decelerator. Each machine in the chain increases the energy of particle beams before delivering them to experiments or to the next more powerful accelerator. Currently active machines are:

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